John Kerry says U.S. "won't have coal" by 2030

President Joe Biden's climate envoy John Kerry said the United States won’t have coal plants by 2030.

“By 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal,” Kerry said Tuesday during an interview with Bloomberg at the United Nations's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. “We will not have coal plants.”...

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a state that is a producer of oil and natural gas, has major sway over Biden’s expansive climate and social spending agenda that remains pending in Congress. He previously killed a plan backed by Biden and Democratic leaders to pay utilities to generate more clean electricity and to retire coal and other fossil fuel plants...

The U.S. would likely need to retire most, if not, all of its coal plants to meet Biden’s nonbinding goal for the country to generate entirely carbon-free power by 2035. There would also be little role for coal if the U.S. achieves Biden’s pledge to the U.N. as part of the Paris agreement to cut emissions economy-wide in half by 2030.